Example sentences of "[adv] the first [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 2 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 3 | Perhaps the first assumption is that of the demarcation lines between subjects : what makes something a ‘ science ’ , what makes chemistry different from biology . |
| 4 | So the first question is , how much ’ dust ’ did El Chichón put into the stratosphere ? |
| 5 | So the first question is , where do you imagine the poet to be at the beginning of the poem . |
| 6 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 7 | So the first defendant was entitled to ‘ all costs charges and expenses … on a full indemnity basis ’ and the receivers were entitled to retain out of the mortgaged property their remuneration as fixed by the first defendant . |
| 8 | So the first rule is : PRAISE MUST SOUND ENTHUSIASTIC |
| 9 | So the first polygon 's a triangle . |
| 10 | So the first thing is what what 's the first thing you do ? |
| 11 | So the first priority is to spend time in cultivating friendships . |
| 12 | So the first need is to create awareness and recognition of a building 's historical and architectural worth . |
| 13 | So the first point is : Englishness Eludes . |
| 14 | So the first point is if you 're going to show something show it , let everybody deal with it let everybody look at it then when you 've finished with that turn it off because you want the centre of attention to come back to you , presumably . |
| 15 | Only the first interpretation is successfully conveyed in the French version of the leaflet ( Regardez-les . |
| 16 | Only the first construction is possible in English . |
| 17 | In the quotation above only the first sense is intended by the author — the full potential of a word is never actualized entirely in any one of its uses . |
| 18 | In some patients ( e.g. Coltheart et al. , 1983 ) , only the first pattern is seen , so that the way a printed word is comprehended is via pronunciation ; in others ( e.g. Kay and Patterson , 1983 ) one does see examples where a word is read aloud wrongly but comprehended correctly . |
| 19 | For the 108 women with both conditions , only the first episode was counted . |
| 20 | There was , indeed , found to be a greater right field advantage in verbal ability and thus the first hypothesis was supported . |
| 21 | Generally the first method is used for scientific , and the second for commercial , data-processing . |
| 22 | But you see this is not the first chiller is it . |
| 23 | Expansion or reformulation should be possible whether or not the first result is positive or negative . |
| 24 | Because already the First Horseman is in the world of the Future . |
| 25 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 26 | Hence the first floor is a sort of piano nobile , a recent and foreign innovation which did not catch on for very long in smaller English country houses . |
| 27 | Ed. note : Two weeks later the first commode was delivered to Maria Frantzia . |
| 28 | Five minutes later the first team was back . |
| 29 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 30 | Once your kit is sorted out the first hour is generally spent getting used to the skis , sidestepping up the slope and sliding straight down . |